Oct 30, 2018 · @FumbleFingers But if the boss says he needs it by Monday morning, you might say "It's ok, I'll do it at the weekend". (Or you could say "I'll do it over the weekend.) An American would in all likelihood say "Ok, I'll do it on the weekend". "I work weekends" is used in a different context - I would suggest. –

Jun 13, 2022 · Now, weekend as we now know it, is a U.S. invention. The practice of organising employment in a way that provides for most people not working on both Saturday and Sunday first appeared in the U.S. in early twentieth century, became common in that country in the decades that followed, and then spread to most of the world after the Second World War.

Aug 16, 2012 · So technically part of a weekend starts at the beginning and another weekend starts at the end of the week. So when someone says, for example, the weekend of the 24th (the 24th being a Monday) they are not using good grammar or reference. The 24th doesn’t fall on a weekend day ... therefor there is NO “weekend of the 24th.

Whereas "at 9 o'clock" implies starting at 9, but continuing for an flexible length of time; similarly "at Christmas" implies starting at some point during the Christmas period, not necessarily "on Christmas Day"; "at the weekend" implies some point during the weekend which could either be Saturday or Sunday or both.

May 19, 2021 · "At weekends" is not really what one could call "more appropriate", as it does mean the same thing, but it is used more often than "at the weekend": ngram. Without changing the meaning you can use "on" instead of "at" and you find that "on weekends" is much more often used than any other in AmE: ngram. This is not so in BrE: ngram

Dec 2, 2006 · The adjectival or attributive version is generally weekend - weekend bag, weekend sailor. "Something for the weekend," is always so There are no examples of week-end, or weekend being used to mean the end of the week. Edit: Correction, there is one example for definition 1.c "The end (i.e. the last day) of the week; Saturday. dial."

Nov 28, 2018 · When we use time adverbs with 'this' /this week, this year, this month, etc./, no preposition is necessary. You can express the period 'on Saturday and Sunday' with 'at the weekend' /British English/ or 'on the weekend /American English/.

Oct 11, 2014 · Should weekend be singular since there is only one weekend being referred to or should it be plural since there are multiple weekend experiences occurring (one for each employee). If it's interchangeable is there a particular grammatical justification for this or is it just a unique aspect of the word 'weekend'?

whereas Britons favour "at the weekend" Both nations also use over the weekend (for Americans, this is actually the most common form; for Brits, it's a close second). But for Brits, during the weekend is the least favoured of these top four prepositions (it's second-to-bottom for Americans, who really don't like at the weekend).

Jul 28, 2012 · "I was going to do that in the week," for example, contrasts with "...at the weekend" and so week there does not include the weekend. "The week ending 29 July 2012" obviously does include the weekend.